A danger recognized is not always a danger avoided, but it at least gives us half a chance to remember that our highest goal is not the pursuit of happiness but the discovery of the grace and mercy and loving-kindness, the grounding of God.
We gathered in song in a baseball park adjacent to the prison. Our hosts advised us that the women inside could hear us rallying and praying on their behalf.
“It is impossible to imagine that there is gun violence in the risen life, and we should accept no less in our expectations and aspirations for earthly life.” – Bishop of Ohio, the Rt Revd Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.
The North Carolina Council of Churches has sponsored a month-long message on a billboard outside Burlington, quoting the 2nd Commandment – against idolatry – in the context of ongoing national debate over the 2nd Amendment.
In biblical numerology, seventeen is the number of heads and horns of diabolical significance. It is the number of the day of the Flood. It also numbers the day on which the Ark came to rest, somewhere in the Ararat mountains.
Seventeen may choose its own significance.
The bishops received reports on the issues of sexual harassment and abuse, and of gun violence. Duncan-Probe said both are matters of evangelism, as the church considers what Jesus and the gospel have to say within and around us that demand a response from the Episcopal church.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus asks the crowd, “Who among you, if your child asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead, or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?”
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2)
There are no easy answers here, but that does not mean that there is nothing we can do.
The Unholy Trinity conference discussing the intersecting problems of racism, poverty, and gun violence, comes to a close in Chicago today. Yesterday, the conference took